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The funding will go towards paying for a BSL tutor , to teach sign language to a group of people who have varying degree of hearing loss. This will enable them to communicate better within social groups and within their family environment.

Our school delivers free Toddler Gym sessions each week during
term time for all local families with pre-school children. We have
2 staff who share the delivery of these 1 hour sessions. Most of
the equipment is over 10 years old and we want to use this
funding to replace/update some of the items which are no longer
fit for use.

the restoration of
the Stretford Public Hall's main ballroom, and other community
rooms and associated areas. In its current condition, the
Ballroom’s use is limited – it is currently unsuitable for the
cultural events the community would love to see return to the
building.

We plan to set up a fully functioning and well equipped ceramics
studio in a currently unused premise in Old Trafford.
Neighbouring the Limelight building - a local community hub - the
Manchester Ceramics Collective studio will provide a creative
centre and work-space for local small ceramics producers. The
building will provide employment opportunities for the owners of
10-12 new and emerging ceramics companies and provide a
creative space that will be used to nurture engagement in
ceramics and offer opportunities for the local community to see
ceramics exhibitions and get involved in pottery workshops.

Psychotherapy Manchester CIC would like to create and facilitate
a close BME art therapy group for Anxiety and Depression in Old
Trafford, Bluesci Wellbeing centre. The aim is to run for the
group for 10 months with a review after 5 months, twice per week
for an hour and half as well as individual interventions for
individuals who may have difficulties engaging in group
therapies. Two months will be used for assessments and
identification of the group participants. The group will provide a
long-term safe, non-judgement art psychodynamic
psychotherapy space where our clients could use art materials to
express their feelings and thoughts which at times might be
difficult for them to communicate verbally.

The project would involve the development of the Limelight
Rooftop garden into a thriving community space providing a
much-needed resource for tenants and local people to benefit
from the social, economic, environmental and health benefits of
food growing. We will take referrals from the GP and offer a
social prescription service so people can get growing with us in
the garden and meet others in the process.

The Bowdon Youth Festival is a competitive Music and Speech &
Drama Festival which has been held annually in February for the
past 6 years for the benefit of local school-aged children, their
parents and teachers.

The TBBT model always aims to be sustainable and asks for support in the first year of expansion into a new community hub. We are six months into embedding our partnership in with SMCP and need further help to get us to the point of being able to be sustainable.

We meet every Friday night to rehearse songs to perform at
various events. We use Firswood Community Centre as it is
convenient and safe for our choir members and there isn't much
going on in this part of Stretford. We need ink to enable us to
photocopy words so that our choir members can sing.

Over the last 18 months we have identified an increased
demand in the need to offer work experience to volunteers
who have additional and/or complex needs. We have been
approached by a parent, colleges, an autistic charity and The
Department of Work and Pensions who are very keen for us
to help with giving volunteering opportunities to disabled
adults and disabled young people about to leave college.

We wish to provide a supported employment service for people
with learning disabilities, autism/aspergers and/or mental health
needs within Trafford whose needs are not being met by other
organisations. Our job coach will support these individuals to
develop self-confidence and employability skills and help them to
find volunteer places, work experience and, ultimately, paid
employment.